Strong Bad's Computer Malfunctioning

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==System Errors==
==System Errors==
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The '''System Error''' screen appears whenever Strong Bad's computer crashes. It is an obvious reference to the [[Wikipedia:Blue screen of death|blue screen of death]] that appears on Windows computers.
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The '''System Error''' screen appears whenever Strong Bad's computer crashes. It is a direct reference to the [[Wikipedia:Blue screen of death|blue screen of death]] that appears on Windows computers.
===Flagrant System Error===
===Flagrant System Error===
[[Image:flagrant system error 2.PNG|thumb|150px|"What the... Where did all my emails go?"]]
[[Image:flagrant system error 2.PNG|thumb|150px|"What the... Where did all my emails go?"]]
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'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]
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*Email [[50 emails]]
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*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Three]]
<blockquote class="email" style="background:#455fd8; text-align:center">FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR<br />
<blockquote class="email" style="background:#455fd8; text-align:center">FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR<br />
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Flagrant System Error. You got your MIR,
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The system is down. I dunno what <br />
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MSO, and DMZ running so now it is all broke.</blockquote>
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you did, moron, but you sure <br />
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screwed everything up good.</blockquote>
{{clear}}
{{clear}}
===Computer Over Notification===
===Computer Over Notification===
[[Image:flagrant system error.PNG|thumb|150px|"Computer over? Virus equals very yes? That's not a good prize!"]]
[[Image:flagrant system error.PNG|thumb|150px|"Computer over? Virus equals very yes? That's not a good prize!"]]
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'''Computer:''' Compy 386
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*Email [[virus]]
<blockquote class="email" style="background:#455fd8;text-align:center">FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR<br />
<blockquote class="email" style="background:#455fd8;text-align:center">FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR<br />
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Virus = Very Yes.</blockquote>
Virus = Very Yes.</blockquote>
{{clear}}
{{clear}}
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===Flamboyant System Error===
===Flamboyant System Error===
[[Image:Office Compy PuppetStuff.jpg|thumb|150px|"''Oh, great!''"]]
[[Image:Office Compy PuppetStuff.jpg|thumb|150px|"''Oh, great!''"]]
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<blockquote class="short email" style="background:#32407d; text-align:center">Flamboyant System Error<br />
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'''Computer:''' [[Corpy NT6]] (puppet variation)
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*[[Biz Cas Fri 1]]
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#3a5f90; text-align:center">Flamboyant System Error<br />
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3rd Qtr. Projection= Bad News</blockquote>
3rd Qtr. Projection= Bad News</blockquote>
{{clear}}
{{clear}}
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===Teal Screen of Near Death===
===Teal Screen of Near Death===
[[Image:Tealscreenneardeath.PNG|thumb|150px|Oh, Child!]]
[[Image:Tealscreenneardeath.PNG|thumb|150px|Oh, Child!]]
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'''Computer:''' [[Lappy 486]]
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*Email [[retirement]]
<blockquote style="background: #06bfad; padding: 30px; width: 25em; margin: 0; border: none">
<blockquote style="background: #06bfad; padding: 30px; width: 25em; margin: 0; border: none">
{| style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"
{| style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"
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|<div style="border: 1px solid black"><p style="border-top: 2px solid white; border-left: 2px solid white; border-bottom: 2px solid #999; border-right: 2px solid #999; background: #CCC; color: black; font-size: 150%; text-align: center; line-height: 125%; margin: 0; padding: 0"><big>'''Oh, Child!'''</big>
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|<div style="border: 1px solid black"><p style="border-top: 2px solid white; border-left: 2px solid white; border-bottom: 2px solid #999; border-right: 2px solid #999; background: #CCC; color: black; font-size: 150%; text-align: center; line-height: 125%; margin: 0; padding: 0"><big>[[Image:NO symbol red w-gray.png|50px|link=]]''' Oh, Child!'''[[Image:warning symbol yellow w-gray.png|50px|link=]]</big>
<br>It's the Teal Screen<br>&nbsp;of Near Death! (TSoND)&nbsp;</p></div>
<br>It's the Teal Screen<br>&nbsp;of Near Death! (TSoND)&nbsp;</p></div>
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===Temp Log Off/Out Error===
===Temp Log Off/Out Error===
[[Image:Temperror.PNG|thumb|150px|"Augh, gonna be a long one."]]
[[Image:Temperror.PNG|thumb|150px|"Augh, gonna be a long one."]]
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#455FD8; border-color:#E2E2E2; text-align:center">
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'''Computer:''' Corpy NT6
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*Email [[from work]]
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#0048b6; border-color:#E2E2E2; text-align:center">
{| cellspacing="0" style="border:1px solid white; color:white; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"
{| cellspacing="0" style="border:1px solid white; color:white; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"
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===Fake Fragrant System Error===
===Fake Fragrant System Error===
[[Image:compe error.png|thumb|150px|i joké]]
[[Image:compe error.png|thumb|150px|i joké]]
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#455FD8; border-color:#E2E2E2; text-align:center">
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'''Computer:''' [[Compé]]
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*[[Compy Catalog]]
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#0000dc; border-color:#E2E2E2; text-align:center">
FRAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR
FRAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR
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<br />
<br>Your brand new computer is bloke.
<br>Your brand new computer is bloke.
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<br>Please prepare to wait on hold
<br>Please prepare to wait on hold
<br>with tech support for several hours.
<br>with tech support for several hours.
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<br />
<br>The current tech support smugness
<br>The current tech support smugness
<br>level is RED.
<br>level is RED.
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
{{clear}}
{{clear}}
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===Appearances===
 
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*Email [[50 emails]]
 
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*Email [[virus]] ("Computer Over" notification)
 
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*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Three]]
 
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*[[Biz Cas Fri 1]] (Flamboyant System Error)
 
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*Email [[retirement]] (Teal Screen of Near Death)
 
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*Email [[from work]] (Temp Log Off/Out Error)
 
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*[[Compy Catalog]] (fake Fragrant System Error)
 
==Strong Bad's Computers Exploding==
==Strong Bad's Computers Exploding==
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[[Image:sbemail33.PNG|thumb|YOUR TANDY A SPLODE]]
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[[Image:sbemail33.PNG|thumb|YOUR TANDY [[A SPLODE]]]]
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Some of Strong Bad's Computers are also known to [[Explosions|explode]] spontaneously. Probably the most famous of these explosions was the first explosion of the [[Tandy 400]], which was later fixed (though it still had some malfunctions, such as deleting emails he wanted saved, and vice versa).
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Some of Strong Bad's computers are also known to [[Explosions|explode]], whether spontaneously or by outside forces. Probably the most famous of these explosions was the first explosion of the [[Tandy 400]], which was later fixed (though it still had some malfunctions afterward).
===Appearances===
===Appearances===
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*Email [[gimmicks]] ([[Tandy]]; this is shown again in a flashback in [[personal favorites]] and [[hremail3184]])
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*Email [[gimmicks]] ([[Tandy]]; this is shown again in a flashback in [[personal favorites]] and [[hremail 3184]])
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*Email [[invisibility]] (Tandy; not in the original, but shown as a flashback in hremail3184)
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*Email [[invisibility]] (Tandy, as shown in flashback in [[hremail 3184]])
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*Email [[virus]] (Compy; not in the original, but shown in a flashback in hremail3184)
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*Email [[virus]] (Compy; not in the original but shown in a flashback in [[hremail 3184]], exploded when Bubs shot a hole in it)
*[[Biz Cas Fri 3]] (Corpy NT6, puppet style)
*[[Biz Cas Fri 3]] (Corpy NT6, puppet style)
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*Email [[retirement]] (Tandy; Compy, while in [[Strong Mad]]'s mouth)
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*Email [[retirement]] (Tandy, purposely destroyed by Strong Bad and Homestar; Compy, while in [[Strong Mad]]'s mouth)
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*Email [[hremail3184]] ([[Lappy]]; this was not technically a malfunction)
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*Email [[hremail 3184]] ([[Lappy]]; purposely destroyed by Strong Bad through use of a self-destruct button)
==Miscellaneous Malfunctions==
==Miscellaneous Malfunctions==
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[[Image:sbemail118.png|thumb|WAAGH! That is not a small number! That is a ''BIG'' number!]]
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[[Image:sbemail118.png|thumb|150px|That is not a small number!]]
Strong Bad's computers often have various malfunctions, sometimes involving [[gimmicks|explosions]] or [[The Virus|viruses]].
Strong Bad's computers often have various malfunctions, sometimes involving [[gimmicks|explosions]] or [[The Virus|viruses]].
===Appearances===
===Appearances===
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*Email [[sisters]] &mdash; The Tandy spontaneously deletes Strong Bad's email, then saves another email when Strong Bad tries to delete it.
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*Email [[sisters]] {{--}} The Tandy spontaneously deletes Strong Bad's email, then saves another email when Strong Bad tries to delete it.
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*Email [[virus]] &mdash; The Compy refuses to delete the virus email, reports more than 400,000 viruses, then blue-screens before the contents of the screen pour onto the carpet.
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*Email [[virus]] {{--}} The Compy refuses to delete the virus email, reports more than 400,000 viruses, then blue-screens before the contents of the screen pour onto the carpet.
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{{clear}}
==The Paper==
==The Paper==
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Following 172 emails of service, [[The Paper]] and its printer fell from an [[Hammerspace|unknown location]] above Strong Bad, breaking it as predicted in the email [[montage]]. After a few moments of reminiscing, Strong Bad burned the paper, in accordance with its last wishes. It was almost immediately replaced by an inkjet printer and the [[New Paper]]. The Paper came back in [[email thunder]] to beat up the New Paper, but since it got burned, its current fate is unknown. In [[hremail3184]], the Lappy's explosion destroyed one of the Papers, but it's unknown for sure which one.
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[[File:Strong Bad lamenting The Paper.png|thumb|150px|"wE haDd A goOd RUN, oLD buDddy."]]
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Following 172 emails of service, [[The Paper]] and its printer fell from an [[Hammerspace|unknown location]] above Strong Bad, breaking it as predicted in the email [[montage]]. After a few moments of reminiscing, Strong Bad burned the paper, in accordance with its last wishes. It was almost immediately replaced by an inkjet printer and the [[New Paper]]. The Paper came back in [[email thunder]] to beat up the New Paper, but since it got burned, its current fate is unknown. In [[hremail 3184]], the Lappy's explosion destroyed one of the Papers, but it's unknown for sure which one.
===Appearances===
===Appearances===
*Email [[the paper]]
*Email [[the paper]]
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*Email [[hremail3184]]
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*Email [[hremail 3184]]
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{{clear}}
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{{StrongBadEmailInfo}}
[[Category:Electronics running gags]][[Category:Strong Bad Email running gags]]
[[Category:Electronics running gags]][[Category:Strong Bad Email running gags]]

Current revision as of 22:03, 26 March 2024

Nearly every computer that Strong Bad has owned has malfunctioned at some point, and they have done so in some famously tragic ways, most often with a Flagrant System Error or by exploding (the latter ending the computer's run to be replaced by a newer, better, but still obsolete version).

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[edit] System Errors

The System Error screen appears whenever Strong Bad's computer crashes. It is a direct reference to the blue screen of death that appears on Windows computers.

[edit] Flagrant System Error

"What the... Where did all my emails go?"

Computer: Compy 386

[edit] Computer Over Notification

"Computer over? Virus equals very yes? That's not a good prize!"

Computer: Compy 386

[edit] Flamboyant System Error

"Oh, great!"

Computer: Corpy NT6 (puppet variation)

[edit] Teal Screen of Near Death

Oh, Child!

Computer: Lappy 486

Oh, Child!
It's the Teal Screen
 of Near Death! (TSoND) 

[edit] Temp Log Off/Out Error

"Augh, gonna be a long one."

Computer: Corpy NT6

[edit] Fake Fragrant System Error

i joké

Computer: Compé

[edit] Strong Bad's Computers Exploding

YOUR TANDY A SPLODE

Some of Strong Bad's computers are also known to explode, whether spontaneously or by outside forces. Probably the most famous of these explosions was the first explosion of the Tandy 400, which was later fixed (though it still had some malfunctions afterward).

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Miscellaneous Malfunctions

That is not a small number!

Strong Bad's computers often have various malfunctions, sometimes involving explosions or viruses.

[edit] Appearances

  • Email sisters — The Tandy spontaneously deletes Strong Bad's email, then saves another email when Strong Bad tries to delete it.
  • Email virus — The Compy refuses to delete the virus email, reports more than 400,000 viruses, then blue-screens before the contents of the screen pour onto the carpet.

[edit] The Paper

"wE haDd A goOd RUN, oLD buDddy."

Following 172 emails of service, The Paper and its printer fell from an unknown location above Strong Bad, breaking it as predicted in the email montage. After a few moments of reminiscing, Strong Bad burned the paper, in accordance with its last wishes. It was almost immediately replaced by an inkjet printer and the New Paper. The Paper came back in email thunder to beat up the New Paper, but since it got burned, its current fate is unknown. In hremail 3184, the Lappy's explosion destroyed one of the Papers, but it's unknown for sure which one.

[edit] Appearances

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